An Annotated List of the Most Valuable
Online Resources on Reconstruction

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RECONSTRUCTION

African
American Migrations After the Civil Warhttp://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.htmlThis
Library of Congress exhibit describes African American migrations
out of the South, focusing on the Kansas Exodusters, western homesteading,
and migration to Chicago.

The
Emma Spaulding Bryant Letters
http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/bryant/
This collection of letters from Emma Bryant to her husband John,
who worked for the Freedmen’s Bureau during the summer of 1873,
shed light on marital relationships during the mid-19th
century and on the problems of Reconstruction.

"Toward
Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America,
1857-1874."
http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/Articles, illustrations, and cartoons from Harper’s Weekly dealing
with slavery and emancipation from the late 1850s into Reconstruction.